Education

State Senator Ken LaValle has lowered a guard rail to what had been an on-the-rails deal to merge Brooklyn’s Polytechnic University into New York University. As reported in today’s New York Times, NYU gave up its own engineering school 35 ...

In this edition of LI Bizcast, host David Reich-Hale tells us how Stony Brook University is interested in buying Touro Law in Central Islip, which would give the state-run school control over one of only two law schools on Long ...

Glad to see our special flash – and front page story – on Stony Brook University’s possible acquisition of Touro in Central Islip get so much attention. In case you missed it, here’s the story: Touro College is in discussions ...

February 1, 2008Comments Off on Newest LI Bizcast is live with Touro scoop

This week, there is big news in the latest episode of our weekly podcast. In this edition of LI Bizcast, host David Reich-Hale tells us how Stony Brook University is interested in buying Touro Law in Central Islip, which would ...

You can’t say Gov. Eliot Spitzer does nothing for Long Island schools. The governor today will pay off the Roosevelt School District’s $8 million debt, and promises to support the district until at least 2015. From the NBC brief: The ...

At SUNY Old Westbury, if you want to live on campus you better get at least average grades. If not, it’s off to rental land, which we know is a Lilliputian domain on Long Island. According to a story on ...

Suffolk Community College got some good news at the 2007-2008 SCCC Status Update, hosted by county Legis. Wayne Horsley, D-Lindenhurst. The community college is now the largest community college in the State University of New York system, with a 22.4 ...

For this edition of At C Level, the Long Island Business News Web team visited the groundbreaking of Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research Technology Center, a facility that hopes to promote and develop various alternative energy projects. First, David ...

Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center yesterday launched a new Web site designed to keep the public abreast of the various projects and collaborations with other universities the facility expects to soon host. The announcement was sent ...

September 26, 2007Comments Off on Stony Brook, safeguarding you from faulty news

News literacy, it’s not jut about sentence structure anymore. Stony Brook University plans to launch the Center for News Literacy, which teaches the news-reading public how to judge the reliablity of their favorite sources. According to an Associated Press story, ...